Jugaad Ethics

There’s a similar pattern happened with “democracy”. Places like the US and France are still tugged along by pockets of non-democracy that do innovation and organization while the heavy chaos of the masses exploit them. The failures of the orginizing classes (like Afghanistan) become “anti-democratic” projects in which “muh elites” sent our boys to die. Elite successes (the moon landing) “represent America” and not the group that envisioned and executed it.

There’s a similar pattern happened with “democracy”. Places like the US and France are still tugged along by pockets of non-democracy that do innovation and organization while the heavy chaos of the masses exploit them.

Very true. I didn’t think of that. Kind of like what Yarvin said about it back in the day – Apple is so well run and it’s a monarchy, compare that with the government, etc.

The failures of the orginizing classes (like Afghanistan) become “anti-democratic” projects in which “muh elites” sent our boys to die.

Yes, the elite are a scapegoat. Almost every time the rabble blame the elite for something, it’s their own fault. The deep state is really just Obama is really just the majority of Americans. etc

Elite successes (the moon landing) “represent America” and not the group that envisioned and executed it.

Yeah I’ve heard that one recently, the United States is the moon landing or something, when really it was a NSDAP card carrying aristocrat and a bunch of other eugenic 120+ IQ Aryan men, not anyone who has anything in common with 75% of the United States population today. The bottom 70% or 80% would be living in huts if it weren’t for the remainder.

Yeah I’ve heard that one recently, the United States is the moon landing or something

The ironic part is that the exact opposite was always true. Most Americans typically will be more concerned with welfare checks than space. If anything, the Moon Landing stands in repudiation of the US.

Almost every time the rabble blame the elite for something, it’s their own fault.

Yeah, for my example (wars of the middle east) the polls show the same irony as with the moon landing, only reversed. The wars were started with overwhelming support. But when war proves as complicated as it inevitably must become opinion shifts, but at that point you cant exactly claim take backs. The average American thinks they should be able to return whichever war they previously demanded, preferably with full refund, just like they return used items to Walmart.

American excellence lies in their top 20% of intellectuals and athletes

I wouldnt call >20% excellent. Thats like calling 5'11 or 6ft an “excellent” height. I mean, 6ft is within the ideal range but not noteworthy. Whats more interesting is people who are top 20% in a variety of traits (say three) or people who are top 1% or even .1% (depending on trait and how meaningful its tails are). IMO if someone is only noteworth in one trait they need to be farther right on its bellcurve then is someone is good at multiple things. top 20% in 3 independent traits is .008%, but since desirable traits tend to correlate we will round up to .1%.

I increasingly think people are just masochists. Typical prole supports policies harmful to themselves and elites, and so does the typical elite. Whenever one class has a fit of sanity, the other stops it or tries to stop it, such as with wealthy americans moving from reps to dems as reps cut their taxes and dems stoke redistribution demand, such as with american lower classes voting for biden who was not good for them.

Stupid people tend to harm themselves and others more often. It may just be people becoming stupider over time. Wealthy american also became less white over time which probably explains some of the movement to dems and also some of the increase in stupidity. Rep vs Dem dichotomy is partially racial tribalism.